Brian Eno Quotes
If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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I don't jog, if I die I want to be sick.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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We try to guide with a light touch. Sometimes we can be helpful, and my goal with my team, both on the series side and on the film side, is that the collaboration should always be invited. In other words, we're not looking to impose our view on the filmmaker; we hire a storyteller because we love the story, and we love their ability to tell it.
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We must have serious dialogue between Catalonia and the Spanish state on a referendum, on independence, and on how a separation from Spain - if that's what the Catalan people choose - would be accomplished.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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You know you don't have to be the most popular kid in the school to have people acknowledge your presence.
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I, personally, like to get dressed and then do my makeup and hair in about five minutes.
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He's had a big learning curve, and we want to play him more than what we did the other night, ... has got him scheduled to play more. He's a very good athlete, and he also can carry the football, and at some point here I'd like to get him a few carries and kind of see what he looks like there, too. But I think it's just a work in progress, and we're working really hard with him.
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Actually it seems to me that one can hardly say anything either bad enough or good enough about life.
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Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.
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If something is good, you must torture it mercilessly until it is either dead or great.
